Westcorkrailway

Unreal work

Unreal!

I remember when he bought that! I think the idea was for it to sit in the garden. Mad thing altogether!

Start point is cork and end point is kinsale / Clonakilty (the present plan is to diverge just west of Ballinhassig railway station) If the council were serious, they would buy it

Probobly selling due to The oncoming greenway project (buyers beware if that would be against you!) unfortunatly I don’t have 700’000. Otherwise this would litterally be my dream house (only behind Ballymartle station)

More tarmac for the Healy Rae contractors to lay down!

I’m moving to Tralee in a few months, a cool “wouldn’t it be nice” but the expense of re-building everything versus a greenway a fraction of the price… That being said, I could see it operating again, but not under steam power!

Get onto a Thomas rogers in Waterford, he seems to know a lot about that railway line And welcome!

One of the yolks buried in the quarry because of asbestos?

As far as I know, Ray Good actually slept in one of these, or at the very least had a good look inside of them when they were sent down to Bantry for fair specials, he’s coming on the tailte tours bus trip in a few weeks…

Last seen in county Clare, but I am 99 percent sure it’s been cut up, along with a wide variety of CIE stock of this era

I don’t have a full list, but there will be 55 stands total

One of these wagons appears to have survived up to summer 2025. Unfortunatly I haven’t a clue what number it was

I wonder if that is my hand there in coach 1…

I was always happy with how mine came out

I note what appears to be Roger Joanes name on the RPSI coach reservation list, I’d be tempted to say hello to him at the weekend

There are fairly set colours when it comes to 3D printing, you can’t, for instance, Just set the printer to a colour. You get a roll of Meltable plastic, usually either a bright colour to help during testing. I have used 3d printing filament that is similar to GSR grey, but I’d deffo reccomend painting it to improve the rough finish of some 3D printing! As somone pointed out recently, I wonder did sambo have drawings at all, considering its construction seems to be of mostly spare bits and sheet metal

I don’t think I have ever seen a photo of it running, granted it did move, and was largely being repaired for fenit harbour work at some stage in the 50s, but in CIE times it was seems to always be a static exhibit.

In my mind I would be happy to have this static, sitting in a siding somewhere

Saw these on FB, maybe the poster is active on here, but couldn’t help but share these 3rd printed models of GSR 299

Might be something for 3d printing? We can measure one in Downpatrick, I assume the bogeys are standard

A few photos of foynes I got on the way back from Downpatrick this weekend. Last time I was here the bridge was removed, there was no LC gates and no building either. I assume this building is going to be the new foynes railway station for the rider cup

Munster perspective of 90 this weekend (some 12 inches to a foot scale modelling) Not long after arriving on the 0500 Ex-Cork car, we examined our options to get the bolts off, didn’t take long to realise that these nuts were too far beyond whacking them off, so modern methods as seen below were used To acheive the above photo, it quite literally took a day to do, trying to cut off the bolts without damaging anything else, most bolts needing to be cut on 3/4 times before being loose enough to knock off after another hour of hacking, the ashpan had been finally lowered into the pit here we get a unique look into 90s firebox

Former “West Clare” stock in Limerick ready for refurb